Where: Montserrat (16.7° N, 62.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.7° N, 62.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by McGregor in 1936; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: H. D. Thomas. 1938. Notes on the corals from the fossiliferous tuffs of Roche Bluff, in The Royal Society expedition to Montserrat, B.W.I. The volcanic history and petrology of Montserrat with observations on Mt Pelé, in Martinique. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B. Biological Sciences 557:80-81 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 209803: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.05.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Phyllocoenia cavernosa" = Montastrea cavernosa
"Phyllocoenia cavernosa" = Montastrea cavernosa Linne 1767 stony coral | |
Stephanocoenia intersepta Esper 1795 stony coral | |
"Solenastraea hyades" = Solenastrea hyades
"Solenastraea hyades" = Solenastrea hyades Dana 1846 stony coral | |
"Phyllocoenia annularis" = Orbicella annularis
"Phyllocoenia annularis" = Orbicella annularis Ellis and Solander 1876 stony coral | |
Dichocoenia stokesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Diploria labyrinthiformis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral |